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Just returned from Utah and Nevada (yes, I climbed the mountain and saw the
bird - Himalayan snowcock, that is!), and decided to try to up-grade some of
the birds in one of my Atlas blocks (59C6CE, Utica 2) this morning.
Feeding fledged young were:
House wren
Song sparrow
White-breasted nuthatch
Yellow warbler
Scarlet tanager
Rose-breasted grosbeak
Baltimore oriole
Blue jay
Robin
Cardinal
Carrying food were:
Downy woodpecker
Gray catbird
Cedar waxwing
Tufted titmouse
Visiting an obscured location repeatedly were:
Male and female ruby-throated hummingbird
Copulating:
Chipping sparrow
Other observations:
Hairy woodpecker - a first for this block, I think
Hooded warbler
Acadian flycatcher
Great-crested flycatcher
Yellow-billed cuckoo
Wood thrush
Common yellowthroat
Eastern towhee
White-eyed vireo
Northern flicker
Killdeer
Eastern phoebe
In a muddy cornfield, or what's left of it after the recent monsoons:
The first PEEPS of the year. Boy, I'm going to have to bone up on these
guys - I'm not sure what I was seeing. Of the three seen, one had black
legs, one looked like it might have been a semipalmated sandpiper, but I
couldn't prove it. Didn't have my scope, and would have missed these three
birds had I not been looking so carefully at the killdeer to determine if
they had any downy young among them.
Good birding, all! (It's not too late to work on Atlasing!)
Margaret Bowman
Licking Co., OH
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